Monday – December 29, 2025

Intl Cello Day (YoYoMa anyone?)

Pepper Pot Day

Tick Tock Day (Not social media… this is about your to-do list – get it done!)

Meme Du Jour

BEST POLL OF THE WEEKEND

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1778 – The British capture Savannah, GA

1845 – Wearing number 28, the Republic of Texas enters the United States 
1849 – Gas lighting is installed in the White House
1851 – The first YMCA opened in the USA in the Old South Church in Boston
1902 – Scott Joplin copyrights ‘The Entertainer’
 (and a few other compositions)
1940 – London is devated by German air raid

1965 – A brief Christmas truce in Vietnam as President Johnson works to get both sides to the peace talks 
1972 – The last issue of LIFE Magazine is published
 (It was a double issue ‘The Year In Pictures’)
1989 – Canada is the first nation to ban smoking on all domestic airline flights

1997 – Hong Kong begins massive slaughter of all its chickens due to a bird flu outbreak

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– TRUMP AND ZELENSKYY — MEDIA ASKED, DO YOU HAVE A NEW YEARS DAY DEADLINE?

– ABOUT THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE – IT WILL EITHER END OR GO ON FOR A LONG TIME

– TRUMP ASKED IF PUTIN IS SERIOUS ABOUT PEACE?

– PRESSER AFTER – TRUMP ON WHAT HE FEELS WAS ACCOMPLISHED

– ‘WE COULD BE VERY CLOSE (TO PEACE) THERE ARE ONE OR TWO THORNY ISSUES

– THE PRESIDENT WAS ASKED, ‘WHAT’S THE THORNIEST ISSUE?’

– TRUMP IS WILLING TO GO TO UKRAINE IF IT WILL SAVE LIVES

– THE PRESIDENT GIVING PROPS TO HIS PEOPLE

– TRUMP RIBS THE PRESS AT MAR-A-LAGO — ‘WOULD YOU LIKE SOME FOOD OR IS THAT A BRIBE?’

– TRUMP ALSO COMMENTED ON ZELENSKYY’S APPRECIATION OF MAR-A-LAGO

– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RATHER UNFILTERED WHEN SPEAKING ABOUT SOMALI FRAUD IN MN AND SOMALIA

– MN TOM EMMER IS CALLING OUT TIM WALZ AND KEITH ELLISON ABOUT THE FRAUD IN HIS STATE

– EMMER CLAIMS WALZ AND AG ELLISON SHUT DOWN INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE FRAUD

– ANNA PAULINA LUNA IS AS FRUSTRATED AS YOU AND I — WHEN ARE THE ARRESTS HAPPENING?

– SCOTT JENNINGS DEBUNKS THE ‘TRUMP SHUTDOWN’ NARRATIVE PUSHED ON CNN

– JENNINGS ALSO PREDICTED TRUMP WOULD WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE

– SWALWELL SAYS DEMS WILL IMPEACH TRUMP IF THEY WIN CONTROL OF THE HOUSE

– PELOSI ON IMPEACHING TRUMP — HE DID IT TO HIMSELF

– PELOSI IS STILL SELLING THIS IDEA OF AN INSURRECTION FIVE YEARS AGO

     – NANCY IS STILL BRAGGING ABOUT TEARING UP TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH

– BERNIE SANDERS IS BACK ON TV DEMONIZING THE ‘RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD’

– JASMINE CROCKET NEEDS SUBTITLES AGAIN

– THE UN IS CALLING FOR THE U.S. TO BE ISOLATED — (LET’S START BY KICKING THEM OUT OF THE COUNTRY)

– ROSIE SAID SHE WAS TAKING A BREAK FROM TALKING ABOUT TRUMP, SHE CAN’T (SHE’S GETTING WORSE)

– ROSIE ALSO JOINED JIM ACOSTA’S ANTI-TRUMP ECHO CHAMBER

– COLBERT ASKED, ‘IF YOU COULD CHANGE BODIES WITH ONE PERSON FOR 24 HRS?’ (HE SAYS TRUMP)

– BOO HOO — HUNTER BIDEN IS CRYING ABOUT ALL OF THE ATTENTION PAID TO HIM

– FLASHBACK: JIMMY KIMMEL 2021 VS 2025

More News From DC

– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WILLING TO TRAVEL TO UKRAINE TO TRY AND GET THIS WAR ENDED

– 10 RACES THAT MAY DECIDE WHICH SIDE CONTROLS THE U.S. SENATE

– RATIO OF THE DAY – DE REP (THE TRANS ONE) CELEBRATES KWANZAA AND GETS CALLED OUT

– FBI DIRECTOR PATEL IS MOVING THE AGENCY OUT OF THE HOOVER BUILDING

– VP JD VANCE HAS HIGH PRAISE FOR NICK SHIRLEY’S WORK EXPOSING SOMALI FRAUD IN MN

– FBI DirECTOR PATEL’S UPDATE ON INVESTIGATIONS INTO SOMALI FRAUD IN MN

– THE CURIOUS CASE OF ILHAN OMAR’S HUSBAND’S WEALTH – AND HIS SUDDEN HIDING OF HIS ‘CLIENTS’

– BIG JUMP IN YOUR 401 K SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS RETURNED

– U.S. IS GATHERING FACIAL RECOGNITION DATA ON ALL NON-CITIZENS ENTERING AND LEAVING THE COUNTRY

– BTW – SOMALIA IS PRESIDENT OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY

– ALSO, IRAN HAS DECLARED ‘TOTAL WAR’ ON THE U.S. AND THE U.K.

– 18 STATES SET TO BAN JUNK FOOD PURCHASES USING SNAP BENEFITS (ONLY 18?)

THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE OBVIOUS PROBLEM IN MINNESOTA

General News

– NICK SHIRLEY’S FULL 42 MINUTE REPORT ON WELFARE FRAUD IN MN – (THIS SHOULD INFURIATE YOU)

– SHIRLEY SAYS ‘THERE BETTER BE CHANGE’ AFTER HIS VIDEO HAS BEEN SEEN

  – THE DOOR GETS SLAMMED AND LOCKED IN NICK’S FACE WHEN HE DARES TO ASK ‘WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?’ 

– THE GUY WHO WAS WITH SHIRLEY SHARES MORE DETAILS ON HIS INVESTIGATION INTO MN DAYCARE FRAUD

– THERE IS ALSO A MASSIVE TRANSPORTATION SCAM TIED TO THE SOMALI COMMUNITY

– GOV WALZ IS NOT APOLOGIZING FOR ANY OF THIS

– SOMALI WOMAN SAYS TRUMP SHOULD BE THANKING HER PEOPLE

– WELL, WELL, WELL, CBS NEWS ACTUALLY DID A REPORT ON THE MN FRAUD

– MINNESOTA’S LARGEST NEWSPAPER HAS NOT WRITTEN ABOUT THE FRAUD — NOT EVEN IN THE 2025 YEAR END REVIEW

– MN JUDGE TOSSES CONVICTION OF FRAUDSTER IN $7M GRIFT

– TWO HELICOPTERS COLLIDE IN NJ, AT LEAST ONE PERSON IS DEAD

– WALMART CLOSING ITS LAST TWO STORES IN THE PORTLAND, OR AREA — TOO MUCH CRIME

– NY GOV HOCHUL DENIES ‘NO TAX ON TIPS’ BENEFITS TO WORKERS – A WAITRESS RESPONDS

– CA MAY BE TAXING ITS BILLIONAIRES INTO LEAVING THE STATES

– HOW MUCH DOES AN AIRLINE PILOT MAKE? SEE THE PAY STUB OF ONE PILOT

– FIREFOX PROMISES A ‘KILL SWITCH’ THAT CAN/WILL SHUT OFF ITS A-I. DO YOU BELIEVE THEM?

– IS ANYONE SURPRISED THAT CHINA MAKES A TOY GUN THAT CAN FIRE REAL BULLETS?

– NEWSWEEK’S ‘MUST-READ’ PIECE ON THE LIES WE WERE TOLD ABOUT ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE’

     – ADDENDUM TO THE NEWSWEEK PIECE IS THIS ARTICLE ON THE DUTCH STUDY MENTIONED IN REPORTING

– SOME PEOPLE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ERIKA KIRK’S 2012 APPEARANCE IN A COUNTRY MUSIC VIDEO (I AM NOT ONE.)

ACCURATE

Other News Catching My Eye

– 104 YR OLD WWII VET SGT DOMINICK CRITELLI PERFORMS THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT A NY ISLANDERS GAME

– WANT TO USE A GOOGLE SEARCH ONLINE IN AUSTRALIA YOU KNOW NEED AN I.D.

– WAYMO IS PAYING PEOPLE TO CLOSE DOORS ON ITS CARS

– THERE ARE ONLY FIVE SEARS STORES REMAINING IN AMERICA

– TROUBLED AUSSIE CRUISE SHIP CALLED ‘THE CORAL ADVENTURER’ IS GROUNDED ON A CORAL REEF

– DRUNK THIEF STEALS THEN RETURNS TWO MANDOLINS – INCLUDES AN APOLOGY NOTE

– A ‘FLORIDA MAN’ STORY – THIS ONE INVOLVES A CRUMBLING TOILET AND OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

– R-I-P BRIGITTE BARDO – GONE AT 91

– BILL O’REILLY’s TAKE ON THE STATE OF TV NEWS